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Article: South Africa's Radical Tradition 2, 1943-64.(Review)
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- June 22, 1998
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ALLISON DREW, South Africa's Radical Tradition 2, 1943-64, Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press, 1997, 402 pp., R135.95, ISBN 0 7992 1614 3.
The publication of Allison Drew's documentary history of South Africa's radical tradition in two volumes may signal to the reader the `end of (radical) history' in South Africa, underlined by the culmination and conclusion of `national liberation' with the first general election on 27 April 1994, yet it is an extremely timely and important documentation of the hopes, aspirations and struggles of the majority of South Africans, many of which have still not been realised.
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